Open House Picks
Brooklyn Heights 12 Willow Place Corcoran Sunday 2:30-4 $3,600,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 503 10th Street Warren Lewis (#5948) Sunday 2:30-4:30 $1,920,000 GMAP P*Shark Park Slope 305 12th Street Coldwell Banker Sunday 1-4 $1,375,000 GMAP P*Shark Bedford Stuyvesant 319 Decatur Street Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage Sunday 11-12:30 $725,000 GMAP P*Shark

Brooklyn Heights
12 Willow Place
Corcoran
Sunday 2:30-4
$3,600,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
503 10th Street
Warren Lewis (#5948)
Sunday 2:30-4:30
$1,920,000
GMAP P*Shark
Park Slope
305 12th Street
Coldwell Banker
Sunday 1-4
$1,375,000
GMAP P*Shark
Bedford Stuyvesant
319 Decatur Street
Stuyvesant Heights Brokerage
Sunday 11-12:30
$725,000
GMAP P*Shark
regarding the 10th street property; propertyshark has the current owner buy this place only a year ago? unfortunately, it does not say what the sale price in 06 was. Is this a flip job?
What’s with the 10:46am bashers here? I thought he made perfectly reasonable comments, even if I disagree with some. Come on, he’s right that it’s sad that $2 million doesn’t buy you central air, and that it will probably go for that much anyway.
Also, the blue wall house mentioned above which also went for above 2.65 million, supposedly, also had no central air or master bath (as far as I can tell). Are those no longer an issue for high end buyers?
Finally, those of you who said the c of o was illegal…the realtor is advertising the illegality on the website. Is it really a problem? Wouldn’t a renovation meeting the code for a 2 family also meet the code for a 1 family anyway.
I guess I’m as bad as 10:46am with “too much time on my hands” (as someone accused).
As for people being put off by a blue wall here on brownstoner, that house with the gorgeous blue walls the bashers hated went for over asking price with multiple offers. Because THAT’S a house that only needed a paintbrush if someone didn’t like the blue. Everything else was done.
I’d love to meet the contractors in your dream world, 12:27! I didn’t get any installation quote for under $15,000 for my kitchen and my kitchen is small, and the walls were already prepped. Bathroom installations were the same costs. And that doesn’t include appliances, cabinets anything.
Nobody buys a $2 million house in Park Slope and puts in a cheap kitchen and baths by the way. Bad bad bad idea. It doesn’t measure up to the other houses in the area, and that’s the number one rule in renovating and updating. Don’t do TOO much more than what other houses in your area are doing, but don’t do a lot less than what other houses are doing either. Our house isn’t even in a neighborhood as fancy as Park Slope, and everyone in our neighborhood are installing custom, high-end kitchens. Like it or not, it’s what buyer expect to find when they walk into a house in this market now. Sorry.
Moving the plumbing to one of the small bedrooms to create a decent master bathroom is a big job and will cost big bucks. You have to file the job, permits are required, licensed plumbers are a must, and the DOB has to sign off on it. If the C of O is not correct, which in this case it isn’t, you’ll need to bring the house up to code for the new C of O as well.
This is a house for somebody renovation oriented who has deep pockets.
and you can also update a bathroom nicely for 8-10 thousand dollars and a kitchen for 30. there’s no NEED to spend 100K. you are living in a dream world if you think they HAVE to cost that much.
this place is more than livable. i’ll take 40 bucks off the pricetag for some paint and brushes and i’d be good to go.
come out of your bubble for a second and realize that every person in the world does not require a 100K new kitchen.
come on.
and if you read this site regularly you would know that people do indeed complain to the point of being put off by properties because of a blue color painted on a wall. it’s quite silly.
Of course everyone knows things can be easily changed in a house, 8:29pm. They’re not saying don’t buy a place because of wallpaper or a non-updated kitchen. They’re saying as buyers they need to include the cost of renovations, in the amount of money you have to borrow on the mortgage. So yeah, they’re going to think about these things when deciding what to buy.
Have you priced the costs of decent contractors lately in NYC? It’s absolutely important for a buyer to consider the costs of renovations. It’s at least a hundred thousand to put in a brand new kitchen and bathrooms. Yes kitchens and baths cost that much. I just did it in my own house.
I’m finding it funny that anyone thinks the period details in the 10th Street house might be a “problem”. I am a so called high-income buyer and its exactly what I was looking for, only I already bought and renovated a place.
I think its priced nicely and should sell quickly. FYI, I’ve used Warren Lewis twice and found them to be completely profesional, usually pricing a tad on the low side (presumably to generate the most interest and stoke the bidding wars).
why would someone assume that making positive comments about a house means it’s the agent?
this makes no sense to me. has the world become THAT pessimistic that every time someone says something positive, it’s looked upon with the utmost skepticism?
sad.